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Kershner, John R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
Rapidly changing environments in day-to-day activities, enriched with stimuli competing for attention, require a cognitive control mechanism to select relevant stimuli, ignore irrelevant stimuli, and shift attention between alternative features of the environment. Such attentional orchestration is essential to the acquisition of reading skills. In…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Dyslexia, Disabilities
Toll, Sylke W. M.; Van der Ven, Sanne H. G.; Kroesbergen, Evelyn H.; Van Luit, Johannes E. H. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
In the past years, an increasing number of studies have investigated executive functions as predictors of individual differences in mathematical abilities. The present longitudinal study was designed to investigate whether the executive functions shifting, inhibition, and working memory differ between low achieving and typically achieving children…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Learning Disabilities, Inhibition, Short Term Memory

Fuller, Peter W. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1978
Parieto-occipital electroencephalograms were recorded during resting baseline intervals, during an initial instruction period, and during active performance on mental arithmetic and immediate recall tasks to determine if 10 learning disabled boys (10-12 years old) would show less alpha attenuation than 11 normal controls. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Electroencephalography, Elementary Education

Hallahan, Daniel P.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1978
Hagen's central-incidental learning task, the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire (IAR), and the Nowicki-Strickland Scale (N-S) locus of control measures were used to examine selective attention and locus of control--two variables associated with motivation and learning--with 56 normal and learning disabled junior and senior high…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Attention Span, Exceptional Child Research